McAULEY, Robert – Fireman at No. 1 station of the
Ottawa Fire Brigade – Died October 17, 1878, near Ottawa,
Ontario Found in the Ottawa River with a pistol shot wound in the
head. He had been missing since the night of the 1st inst.
– (JRO 78).

McAULEY, Roderick (Hon.) – ex-M.P. in the P.E.I.
Assembly – Born Isle of Lewes, Scotland – Died in
January, 1882 at Georgetown, P.E.I., aged 92 – He came to Nova
Scotia as a Presbyterian missionary in 1831 – (Obit.
82).

McBETH, Philip – Stableman – Died February
11, 1885 at Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia – Victim of an
explsion in the old pit of the Vale colliery – (JRO
85).

McBRIDE, William, Asse'r of London – Died May 24,
1881, London, Ontario aged 64 – Drowned by the upsetting of the
steamer Victoria – (JRO 80-81).

McCABE : a child of Maria McCabe – March,
1883 (Hamilton, Ontario) – The body of the child is found
August 1, 1883 in an unused cistern of a house in which had lived
Maria McCabe, an unmarried girl aged 18. The child, of which she had
been delivered in the Hospital last fall, had been missing since
March. She is sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence is commuted
for 14 years' imprisonment. – (JRO 83).

McCABE, Ann (Mrs.) – Died April 26, 1884 in
Westminster, county of Middlesex, Ontario – Poisoned with
strychnine – Her husband, George McCabe, is placed on trial and
found ''Not Guilty'' – (JRO
84).

McCABE, James – an escaped convict from Kingston
Penitentiary – Died October 10, 1883, Port Hope, Ontario –
Shot dead by Constable Wm. Rankin who is trying to arrest him, when
McCabe draws a pistol and threatens to shoot him, on which Rankin
fires. – (JRO 83).

McCADDEN, Barney (Mrs.) – Died June 11, 1883 aged
60 – While returning from the residence of her son at
Chestervill, Stormont County, Ontario, she is killed with an axe by a
young farmer named Thos. Aggat, at whose door she knocked and who
mistook her for a ghost. He is tried, found guilty of manslaughter,
and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Kingston Penitentiary. –
(JRO 84).

McCAFFREY, Robert – Ausust 26, 1882 in Ontario –
Shot to death by Maria Spearman who is tried on September 9, 1882 and
is acquitted – (JRO 82).

McCALLUM, Archibald, M.A., L.L.B. – Inspector of
Schools in Hamilton, Ontario – Born in Scotland – Died
June 29, 1879 at Hamilton, Ontario aged 55 – His father
emigrated to Canada and settled in the northern part of Glengarry,
while the subject of this sketch was a child. – (Obit.
79).

McCARTHY, John – an old man – Died June,
1883 about a mile from Troy, N.W.T. – Murdered. John and George
Stevenson, half-breeds, borthers, are charged with the murder and
placed on trial October 1, 1883. They are found guilty and sentenced
to be hanged on 28th November, but are respited for
further enquiry. – (JRO 83).

McCARTHY, John – Died June 14, 1883 –
Murdered by John and George Stephenson who are hanged on April 3,
1884. – (JRO 84).

McCARTHY, Patrick, of Quebec – Fireman –
Died February 10, 1882 at sea between New York and Porto Rico –
Lost in the founder of the steamer Bahama in a hurricane –
(JRO 82).

McCARTHY, Timothy –
Tavern-keeper risiding at Moncton, New Brunswick – Died October
12, 1877 – Murdered. Disappears at Point du Chene, New
Brunswick. His body is dicovered in the Sadouc River May 11, 1878.
John Osborne, hotel keeper at Shediac, New Brunswick, his wife Martha
Osborne, his daughter Eliza and his son Harry are charged with the
murder (editor's note : In the end, the charges against
the Osbornes were dropped) – Timothy
McCarthy was a married man, having, at the time of his disappearance,
a wife, Helen, and four children living. He was a brother of Edward
McCarthy and Stephen McCarthy – (Trials
78).

McCAUSLAND, Wm. Jno. – M.D. – Died January
28, 1886 at Montrose, Pennsylvania, aged 42 – He came to Canada
from Tyrone, Ireland with his parents in 1847 – (Obit.
86).

McCAWLEY, Rev. George, M.A., D.D. – Church of England clergyman
– Born in 1802 à St. Johns, Newfoundland – Died
December 21, 1878 at Halifax, Nova Scotia – He married, while
in New Brunswick, the daughter of Hon. W. F. Odell, who held the
office of Secretary of the Province under the Imperial Government. He
had but one child, a daughter, who married Rev. Charles Bowman, D.D.,
now rector of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia – (Obit.
78).

McCORD, Andrew Taylor – City Chamberlain of
Toronto 1836-74 – Born July 12, 1805 in Belfast, Ireland –
Died September 5, 1881 in Toronto, Ontario – He came to Canada
about 1831 and settled in Toronto. – (Obit.
80-81).

McCORD, Robert Arthur – Late a Lieut. In H. M.'s
30th Regt. of Foot – Died November 5, 1882 in
Montreal, Quebec, aged 36 – He was the youngest s. of the late
Hon. Justice J. S. McCord – (Obit.
82).

McCORD, Thos. (Hon.) – A Puisne Judge of the
Superior Ct. of Quebec (1873-86) – Born October 17, 1886 in
Montreal, Quebec – Died February 19, 1886 in Quebec – He
was the eldest son of the Hon. W. K. McCord, a Judge of the Superior
Ct., of L. C., and of Aurelia Félicite Arnoldi; grandson of
Thos. McCord, Chairman of the Ct. of Quarter Sessions, Montreal, and
M.P.P. for the county of Bedford in the 9th Parlt. of L.
C.; and great-grandson of John McCord, who came from Donnybrook, near
Dublin, Ireland, soon after the Conquest, and was an extensive
merchant of Quebec in 1765. He married first, Margaret, (died in
1860,) daughter of the late Jas. Wadsworth, Esq. of Ottawa; secondly,
Caroline J. (died in 1872,) daughter of the late Errol B. Lindsay,
Esq., of Quebec; thirdly, Marie Marguerite Caroline, daughter of
Henri des Rivières, Esq., of Malmaison, Quebec, who survives
him. – (Obit. 86).

McCRAE, Cynthia (Miss), of Chatham, Ontario – Died
in June, 1880 – Dr. Pyncheon is acquitted December 12, 1882 at
Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. He was accused of her killing by an attempt at
abortion – (JRO 82).

McCRANEY, Danl. – M.P.P. for East Kent in Ont.
Assembly (1875-85) – Born July 1, 1834 in Trafalgar, Halton,
Ontario – Died February 28, 1885 at Oakville, Ontario –
He was descended from a U. E. Loyalist. – (Obit.
85).

McCREADY, Robert – Wholesale boot and shoe
manufacturer – Born in 1839 in Tipperary, Ireland – Died
January 2, 1885 in Montreal, Quebec where he had long resided –
(Obit. 85).

McCREIGHT, Thos. – Died July 4, 1884 in Turnberry,
Ontario aged 104 – His two sons, John and Thomas, start for
Wingham to make arrangements for the funeral, but the horses run
away, and both the occupants of the buggy are thrown out. John, who
is 70 years of age, is thrown against a stick of wood and so severely
injured that he dies next day. Thomas is seriously, but no fatally,
hurt. – (JRO 84).

McCULLOCH, David – Collector of Customs at
Hamilton, Ontario (1882) – Born May 21, 1835 at Barrhead, near
Glasgow, Scotland – Died October 25, 1884 in Hamilton, Ontario
– He came to Canada with his father in 1842. – (Obit.
84).

McDERMOTT, Andrew – A Red River pioneer –
Born in 1789 in Roscommon, Ireland – Died October 12, 1881,
Winnipeg, Manitoba – He is said to have been the last of those
who emigrated to the North West, in 1812, with Lord Selkirk. –
(Obit. 80-81).

McDONALD,
Dan and Rory, of Rama (Ontario) – Passenger – Died
September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario – Lost in the wreck
of the steamer Asia
– (JRO 82).

McDONALD, Daniel (The Very Rev.), D.D. –
Vicar-General of P.E.I. (1861) – Born February 19, 1822 at
Maple Hill, St. Andrews, P.E.I. – Died January 4, 1885 in
Charlottetown, P.E.I. – He was the son of Mr. Allan McDonald,
formerly of Moidart, Scotland. – (Obit.
85).

McDONALD, Donald (Hon.) – Senator – Born in
1816 in Caledonia, New York, U.S.A. – Died January 20, 1879 in
Toronto, Ontario – His father was a native of Inverness-shire
(Scoltand), and emigrated to the State of New York; but objecting to
the oath of allegiance to a foreign power, he changed his residence
to Canada, when his son was about 7 years of age. – (Obit.
79).

McDONALD, Geo. P. - Died February 8, 1885 – Died from injuries
received on January 29, 1885 from an accidental dynamite explosion at
the Tay Canal works, Beveridge Bay (Ontario) – He was a son of
the contractor. – (JRO
85).

McDONALD, John (Very Rev.), V.G. – Clergyman of
the Church of Rome – Born in 1782 in Scotland – Died
March 16, 1879 in Ontario – He left his native county in 1786,
when only about four years old, accompanied by his parents, and about
200 others, who all settled in the County of Glengarry, Upper Canada
– (Obit. 79).

McDONALD, Randall – Died July 31, 1883 –
Killed by a boy whose father, Francis Bowie, is tried on June 5, 1884
for being a principal in the second degree, and found guilty. –
(JRO 84).

McDONALD, Randall – Died July 31, 1883 –
Murdered – At the Criminal Assizes at Antigonish, Nova Scotia
on October 27, 1884, Francis Bowie is found guilty of being accessory
to the murder and sentenced to be hanged. The sentence is
subsequently commuted for imprisonment for life. – (JRO
84).

McDONALD, Randall – Farmer – Died July 31,
1883 at Tracadie, Nova Scotia – Shot and killed by Jas. Bowie,
14, who makes good his escape. Bowie's father and McDonald had a
dispute about some land, and young Bowie had frequently threatened to
shoot McDonald. – (JRO 83).

McDOUGALL, Wm. – An extensive ship owner, Grand
Chief of the British Templars of Nova Scotia – Born January 16,
1886 – Died May, 1886 in mid-ocean – Washed overboard
from his barque Salmon and drowned – (Obit.
86).

McDOUGALL, Wm. (Hon.) – A Puisne Judge of the
Superior Ct. of Quebec (1880-86) – Born in 1831 in Scotland –
Died March 3, 1886 at Aylmer, Quebec – (Obit.
86).

McDOWELL, Hugh – Died September 13, 1883 at
Cobourg, Ontario – Murdered. He was found by his wife with a
terrible wound in his bowels, from which he died next day, but
refused to say who wounded him. James Caffrey, a shoemaker who had a
shop in the lower part of the house where McDowell lived, is placed
on trial for the murder October 4, 1883. He his found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in jail. – (JRO
83).

McEACHERN, J. – Died May 3. 1883 in the Vale mine,
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia – Killed when, coming up from his
work, the rope attached to the rake breaks, and the boxes run down
the slope. – (JRO 83).

McEACHERN, J. A. – A lad – Died February 11,
1885 at Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia – Victim of an explsion
in the old pit of the Vale colliery – (JRO
85).

McELHAR, Mrs. Margaret – Born Donegal, Ireland –
Died February 29 (sic), 1879 in Montreal, Quebec aged 115 years and
10 months – A few days before her death, at a family re-union,
there were present her children, grand-children, great-grand
children, and a great-great-great-grand-child, aged 10 – (JRO
79).

McGILL, William (Hon.) – ex-M.L.C. of P.E.I –
Born November 21, 1819 at Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire, Scotland –
Died January 4, 1882 at Charlottetown, P.E.I. – He settled in
P.E.I. In 1832 (sic) where he entered into business – (Obit.
82).

McGILLIVRAY, a two-year-old child of Mrs. J. McGillivray
– Died November 15, 1879, Carp Village, near Ottawa, Ontario –
Dies from the effects of having eaten the tops of about twenty
matches with which it was playing – (JRO
79).

McGILLIVRAY, Edward – Merchant – Born
September 15, 1815 in the Co. of Glengarry, Ontario – Died
November 24, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario – (Obit.
85).

McGILLIVRAY, Wallace – Died May 3. 1883 in the
Vale mine, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia – Killed when, coming up
from his work, the rope attached to the rake breaks, and the boxes
run down the slope. – (JRO 83).

McGIVERN, Wm. (Lieut.-Col.) – Ex-M.P.P. for
Lincoln in the Can. Assembly (1863-67) – Born in 1825 in County
Down, Ireland – Died December 18, 1881 at Thorold, Ontario. –
(Obit. 80-81).

McGREGOR, Wm. – Died August 29, 1881 –
Timothy Depew, a sailor residing at Blenheim, Ontario is arrested for
the alledge murder on March 4, 1884. He is tried at the May Assizes
in Hamilton, but the jury fails to agree. – (JRO
84).

McINNES, J. A. (Mr.) – Merchant of Ingersoll,
Ontario – Died February 24, 1884 aged 35 – Killed by an
accident on the Illinois Central railway. He is found in a sleeping
berth with his neck broken – (JRO
85).

McINNES, John – Died October 29, 1884, or shortly
after, at the west ore mine, in connection with the works of the
Canada Steel Co., Londonderry, Nova Scotia – Precipitated to
the bottom of a shaft a distance of 220 feet when the gearing breaks
– (JRO 84).

McINTOSH, Alexander – Died November 27, 1884 at
the priory Farm, St. Andrews, Quebec, where he had long resided –
Late of Invercoe House, Argyleshire, Scotland. He was descended from
an old Scottish family. – (Obit.
84).

McINTOSH, Daniel, crew
– Died March 7, 1879, Lost in the wreck of the ship Turkish
Empireon Big Duck Island –
(JRO 79).

McINTYRE (Mrs.), of Welland, Ontario – Died July
15, 1885 at Niagara Falls, Ontario – Accidentally falls into
the water in crossing the bridge from Bath to Goat Island and is
carried over the falls. – (JRO
85).

McINTYRE, Archibald – A young man of Mitchell,
Ontario – Died December 17, 1885 at St. Thomas, Ontario –
Falls asleep on a railway track and is run over and killed. –
(JRO 85).

McINTYRE, Duncan – Died October 23, 1879,
Belleville, Ontario – Shot and killed by Lulu Ellis during a
row in a brothel. She is acquitted, having acted in self-defence –
(JRO 79).

McINTYRE, Harry, of Leamington – Student at the
Collegiate Institute, St. Catharines, Ontario – Died September
10, 1884 in the Welland Canal, St. Catharines, Ontario –
Drowned when the row-boat he is in is run down and sunk by the
steamer Lindy. – (JRO
84).

McKAY, Alexander – M.P.P. for Pictou in the N.S.
Assembly (1863-67 and 1871-82) – Born April 3, 1818 at West
River, Pictou, Nova Scotia – Died February 16, 1882 at West
River, Pictou, Nova Scotia – His parents came from
Sutherlandshire, Scotland – (Obit.
82).

McKAY, Ann Creighton (Mrs.) – Native
of Perth, Scotland – Died August 21, 1879, Rockliffe, New
Edinburgh, Ontario aged 85 – Relict of the late Hon. Thos.
McKay, M.L.C., of Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario, whom she married in
1813. She came to Canada with her husband in 1817. One of her sons,
Lieut. Chas. McKay, H. M.'s 97thFoot,
died in India, of small-pox.– (Obit.
79).

McKAY, Donald – Ship-builder – Born
September 4, 1810 at Shelburne, Nova Scotia – Died September
20, 1880, Boston, Mass. U.S.A. – His grandfather, a Scotch
Highlander had setteled in Selburne, Nova Scotia. He went to the
U.S.A. when a young man and lived in New York, and then in
Massachssetts. – (Obit.
80-81).

McKAY,
G. – Wheelsman on the Asia
– Died
September 14, 1882, Georgian Bay, Ontario
– Lost
in the wreck of the steamer Asia
– (JRO 82).

McKAY, James – one of the oldest settlers in West
Gwillimbury, Ontario – Born in 1793 in Kildonan,
Sunderlandshire, Scotland – Died April 12, 1879, West
Gwillimbury, Ontario – (Obit.
79).

McKAY, James (Hon.) – ex-M.L.C. of Manitoba –
Born at Edmonton House, Saskatchewan, N. W. T. – Died December
3, 1879, Deer Lodge, near Winnipeg, Manitoba – He was the
eldest son of Mr. James McKay, of Sutherlandshire, Scotland –
(Obit. 79).

McKEAGNEY, James Charles (Hon.) – A Puisne Judge
of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba – Born in 1815 in
County Tyrone, Ireland – Died September 14, 1879, St. Andrews,
New Brunswick – Immigrated from Ireland to Nova Scotia when he
was seven years old. He lived in Nova Scotia most of his life. He was
appointed to a Judgeship in Manitoba in 1872. – (Obit.
79).

McKINLEY, Valeria – Inmate of the Provincial
Lunatic Asylum, Toronto – Died April, 1884 in Toronto aged 32 –
Died a few days after having murdered on April 1, 1884 Rachel
Stevens, a fellow-inmate. – (JRO
84).

McKINNON, K. (Miss.), of Charlottetown (P.E.I.) –
Died September 1, 1885 at Shediac, New Brunswick – Accidentally
drowned by the upsetting of a punt in which they were paddling –
(JRO 85).

McKINNON, Neil – Miner – Died February 11,
1885 at Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia – Victim of an explsion
in the old pit of the Vale colliery – (JRO
85).

McKINNON, Neil (Mr.) – Died July 20, 1885 near
Durham, Ontario – Killed when his house is truck by lightning –
(JRO 85).

McKINNON, Ranald – Contractor and manufacturer –
Born about 1800 in Ulva, Scotland – Died October 17, 1879,
Caledonia, Ontario – Coming to America with his parents at an
early age, the family settled first in New York State (U.S.A.), but
eventually removed to Peel, Upper Canada – (Obit.
79).

McKREAND, James – Retired merchant – Born
July 3, 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland – Died October 3, 1885 in
Montreal, Quebec – Educated at Glasgow University, he entered
his father's firm, Messrs. A. & J. McKeand, wholesale dry goods
of Glasgow. He was placed in charge of the Canadian branches in 1854
untill 1866, when owing to loss of his eyesight, he was compelled to
retire. Of his sons, one, Moorehouse, was foreman of the Red River
Contingent of voyageurs, sent for service on the Nile; another,
Alfred, was in command of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, during
the recent troubles in the North-West. – (Obit.
85).

McLEAN (Mrs.) – Died January 9, 1881, Underwood,
Ontario – Burnt to death in her own house – The other
members of the family are rescued with difficulty – (JRO
80-81).

McLEAN, Archibald, Chas.,
and Allan, three brothers, half-breeds aged 17, 19, and 25 –
Died January 31, 1881, New Westminster, B.C. – Executed with
Alex. Hare, half-breed, for the murder of John Ussher, Government
agent at Kamloops, and a settler named Jas. Kelly, in December, 1879
– (JRO 80-81).

McLEAN, D. B. – Canadian Voyageur who accompanied
Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon, Winnipeg Division –
Died during the expedition in 1884 or 1885 – (Appendix 3,
1884)

McLEOD, Donald – an old soldier and journalist who
lived in Prescott, Ontario – Born January 1, 1779 in Aberdeen,
Scotland – Died July 22, 1879, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. –
(Obit. 79).

McLEOD, Hugh – M. P. representing Cap Breton (Nova
Scotia) – Born in Logie Easter, Ross-shire, Scotland –
Died August 5, 1879 – He was the eldest son of Rev. Dr. McLeod,
Presbyterian Minister of Sydney, Cape Breton, whom he accompanied to
this country in 1850 when yet very young. – (Obit.
79).

McLEOD, James Alexander (Rev.), M.A. (Ch. of Eng.) –
Died October 16, 1882 aged 58 – Was a graduate of Lennoxville
(Quebec), and for many years incumbent of St. Thomas, Montreal –
(Obit. 82).

McLEOD, John – Born in Cape Breton – Died
November 2, 1886 in New York, U.S.A., aged over 97 – (DL
86).

McMAHON, Thos. Babington, LL. B. (1862) – Judge of
the County Court of Norfolk, Ontario (1875) – Born June 15,
1837 at Dundas, Ontario – Died April 18, 1885 at Simcoe,
Ontario – Called to the bar in 1862, he practiced his
profession for a time with his brother Mr. Hugh McMahon, Q.C. –
(Obit. 85).

McMILLAN – Chief of Police, of Brandon, Manitoba –
Died December 16, 1885 – Accidentally shoots himself with a
rifle, and dies from the effects of the wound. – (JRO
85).

McMILLAN W. B. – Died January 22, 1879, Denver,
Colorado – His body was sent to Brantford, Ontario where his
widowed mother resided. She died from grief at the sight of the
corpse on January 29 – (JRO 79).

McMILLAN, Jas. – An active businessman –
Born in 1810 at Belfast, Ireland – Died February 17, 1886 in
St. John, New Brunswick – (Obit.
86).

McMILLAN, John (Hon.) – Inspector of Post Offices
for New Brunswick (1868-86) – Born August 4, 1816 in Brodick,
Arran, Scotland – Died September 12, at Portland, New Brunswick
– He came with his parents to New Brunswick in 1832 –
(Obit. 86).

McMILLAN, John, and J. R. Holt – Died February 1,
1883, Fort Walsh, N. W. T. – Frozen while on their way from
Maple Creek to a dance at F. Walsh – (ADS 83).

McMURRICH, John (Hon.) – Head of the wholesale
firm of Bryce, McMurrich & Co., Toronto – Born in 1804 at
Knock Farm, near Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland – Died
February 13, 1883 in Toronto, Ontario – (Obit.
83).

McNAB, Jno., from the vicinity of Ottawa, Ontario –
Mysteriously disappear in March, 1886 while on a fishing and
prospecting expedition in Howe Sound, British Columbia –
Suspicion rests on a Chinese servant. – (JRO
86).

McQUESTERN, Calvin – M.D. – Born in 1801 at
Bedford, now Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A. – Died October
20, 1885 at Hamilton, Ontario – Coming to Canada, he took up
his residence at Hamilton in 1838. – (Obit.
85).